Patrick Michels | Journalist

Thursday, May 21, 2015

"Houston's Learning Curve" - Politico Magazine

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Feature for Politico Magazine's "What Works" series, about how people working in Houston's public school system respond to the challenges of newcomer refugees and students from neighborhoods where poverty goes back generations.

Read the story here.

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About Me

I'm a staff writer at the Texas Observer in Austin, covering crime and education (sometimes both at once), and an experienced news photographer and video producer. I've been published in Politico Magazine, Grantland, Mashable, Pacific Standard and the Dallas Observer.

I studied magazine writing at Northwestern University and photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

To contact me, email patrick@patrickmichels.com

Strangest State

My monthly feature in the Texas Observer highlights small-town oddities and other unlikely stories from across Texas. Read it here.

Editorial photography

Audio/video production

I've produced short web videos to accompany written pieces and standalone music video series. Currently I co-produce "Observatory," a first-person narrative podcast for the Texas Observer.

Here's some of my favorite work.

Education reporting

I write regularly about education in Texas and the nationwide school reform movement, focused on charter schools, school finance and the school-to-prison pipeline.

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